FMX 463 - Multimedia and Installation Art

For my projected #3, I plan on working alone instead of in a group. The purpose of this project is to get a hold of the senses through the installation. The installation is supposed to have the viewer be completely engulfed within the installation. I want to try and show the feeling of blasting off into space. I want to get videos of stars and the galaxy as stills, as well as have videos of the stars and galaxy passing through quickly, as if you are flying through space. I want to create sounds of a blast off, wind blasting through you, strobe lights/lasers going off. I want to have a huge fan with adjusting speeds blasting at the people in the installation as if they are actually flying through the air. Timeline: Week of 10/29 - get videos and sound effects uploaded. Set up in mad mapper and gather materials for "spaceship"         Week of 11/5 - Practice set up in blackbox, run through simulation. MATERIALS: industrial fan, aluminum foil, laser/strobe l...

https://youtu.be/WW17SvuEQ3w This is my environment projection about my own experience with sexual assault. This is the first time in my entire art career that I have ever been uncomfortable showing, watching, and listening to my own piece. This has by far been the most vulnerable, authentic, and real I have ever been with myself through a piece of artwork. This piece is titled "These Phrases Do Not Define Me."  I was sexually assaulted when I was in middle school by someone who was very close to me and very close to my family. For quite sometime after this happened, I felt so empty, alone, and betrayed, which were very weird feelings to have at such a young age. It took me a long period of my life, almost until college, to come to terms and move on from what had happened to me. I used this projection project as a way to finally release my thoughts on it in an artistic way that would continue to help me heal through this process. I decided to perform in this piec...

So I have finished mapping out and video recording my projection. I had to change around how I was going to execute this project so many times because the ideas I had in my head were not translating well enough in the space that I had. I also couldn't use many of my original videos due to the fact that they were not fitting/translating well into my bedroom. That is one of the many things about being an artist...trial and error. I was very frustrated that I almost had to reconstruct my entire idea. However, I am really pleased with the outcome because I turned it more into a performance piece than I originally had intended. The faces around me symbolize the different types of emotions that I had after my sexual assault. My assaulter had taken away my identity, who I thought I was, and replaced it with a mask, thus the pillowcase over my face. The words on my body represent the main things that I thought about years after. "Why" "Fucking Stupid" and "My O...

This Chapter 4 reading was definitely a tedious read, but really opened my eyes to the true purpose of what installation art is supposed to do. I really connected with the idea of the "Activation and Decentring." This explanation of what installation art's purpose is for the viewer is much more clear and concise now. I liked the idea of "activating" the viewing subject into the art because its makes senes that the viewer would get a more more intense, sensory experience because they are becoming immersed in the artwork instead of just simply looking at it. The need to walk through and immerse oneself into the projection brings the idea so much more to life. Projection artists can use this idea of activating a viewer to relay important and deep rooted messages about serious topics. This relates almost to my project 2 if I were to let people walk into my room during my projection. The idea becomes more real once you're immersed in it and the message will sti...

I feel like I have made great strides towards this project so far. I have shot most of videos in my room and have mapped out where I am putting each video in my sketch book already. I might reshoot some of them because I want to have multiple options to work with. I have tweaked around with multiple different ideas and everything will come more to terms with my mind when I upload my videos into mad mapper. I even started writing a little piece that I might voice over or read out loud during the projection to act as a performance while I record. A part of me wants to use color tones in my videos to make them more cohesive. Maybe use tones of reds and blues but thats it. I want it to be very linear and clear to the viewers. I need to find a video or shoot a video that symbolizes a dungeon to shoot overcast in my room. I want it to show that your bedroom can turn into a dungeon after a sexual assault and it traps you in a place you thought was safe.

For project 2, I wanted to go on a little bit more of serious route with my projection mapping. Considering we are using space as one of the main aspects of this installation, I wanted to find something that reaches deep on the most simple levels. For this project, I plan to use my bedroom for my environment and focus on the idea of rape and sexual assault prevention. This is a topic that I hold very dear to my heart that I feel people like to put on the back burner because it makes them uncomfortable. I want this project to make people feel a certain way and to start a conversation about sexual assault prevention. I want to map out my bedroom as a sort of dungeon, juxtaposing the ideas of safe space and a dangerous space. I want it to symbolize how the safest place, like your bedroom, can instantly become a nightmare due to being sexually assaulted there. I want to use videos of what represent the before, the during, and after sexual assault. TIMELINE WEEK OF OCT 1 - Film/Collec...

For the last 6 years, I have been in love with music festivals. My Junior year of high school is when I fell in love with the feeling I got when in attendance of a festival called Lollapalooza. I never understood the pure joy and unbelievable energy that flows through these festivals and the people that attend there. Since my junior year, I have now attended 14 music festivals across the country, ranging from camping festivals, to day festivals, to even just night shows. I have come to know that these festivals have become my happy place. For my first installation project, I wanted to try and portray what type of events happen during these festivals and how intense the feelings are that go along with them. I believe that being immersed in the music while letting your body be open to do what it wants to do while you're around people you love who also love the same thing as you is extremely freeing. I wanted to portray these emotions and this type of feeling so people can understan...